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2008 | 8 | 139-157

Article title

WHAT IS IMPERCEPTIVE MODALITY?

Title variants

Languages of publication

EN

Abstracts

EN
Imperceptivity is understood as expressing the speaker's detachment from the content of the sentence, often through underlining the fact that the speaker was not a witness of the situation spoken about. The semantic structure of imperceptive sentences contains: 1. the semantic component 'says that'; 2. 'speaker's unawareness', which can be noted as 'the speaker does not know whether....'; 3. the necessity of 'the presence of an observer who is not identical with the speaker', whose opinion is the basis of the speech situation, while the speaker shows doubt concerning the truth of the presented content; 4. the possibility functor 'it is possible that'. Examples from Bulgarian, Polish, Ukrainian and English are presented and the peculiarities of the usage of imperceptivity in those languages are discussed.

Year

Issue

8

Pages

139-157

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

  • Violetta Koseska-Toszewa, Instytut Slawistyki PAN, ul. Bartoszewicza 1B m. 17, 00-337 Warszawa, Poland

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
08PLAAAA053816

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.cc240d6e-2b3c-3a7a-b1e1-93ac5368d7e9
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